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  • Title: Dobro Variations
  • Label: Homespun Tapes
  • Cindy builds your knowledge of the Dobro step-by-step, teaching alternate tunings, music theory and invaluable bar and fingerpicking techniques. Visit Homespun Tapes online or call 1-800-33-TAPES to order.
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  • Title: How to Play Bluegrass Dobro
  • Label: Homespun Tapes
  • Here is a hands-on Dobro lesson that will have you playing your favorite bluegrass and country tunes in no time – even if you’ve never played before! Visit Homespun Tapes online or call 1-800-33-TAPES to order.
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  • Title: Learn to Play Western Swing Steel Guitar: Volume I
  • Label: Homespun Tapes
  • Cindy teaches everything you need to know to get started on your 8 or 6 string lap steel! Visit Homespun Tapes online or call 1-800-33-TAPES to order.
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  • Title: Learn to Play Western Swing Steel Guitar: Volume II
  • Label: Homespun Tapes
  • Develop speed and accuracy, expand your musicality, and use the special licks that give the steel its unique country sound! Visit Homespun Tapes online or call 1-800-33-TAPES to order.
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  • Title: Learn to Play Western Swing Steel Guitar: Volume I & II
  • Label: Homespun Tapes
  • Develop speed and accuracy, expand your musicality, and use the special licks that give the steel its unique country sound! Visit Homespun Tapes online or call 1-800-33-TAPES to order.
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  • Title: Lap Steel Moods
  • Label: Volk Media
  • Year: 2020
  • LAP STEEL MOODS is a song book featuring 25 steel guitar arrangements in 6 tunings as well as a primer for understanding and conceptualizing how tunings differ and what advantages they offer players. Tunings covered in the book include: Open D, C6th, D9th, E9th, E13th and F#9th as well as Boggs and McAuliffe versions of E13th.
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  • Title: Vintage Steel Guitar Music Transcribed
  • Label: Volk Media
  • Year: 2020
  • This downloadable PDF is a collection of vintage acoustic and electric steel guitar music transcribed from sources published between 1915 and the late 1930s. These waltzes, Hawaiian Hulas and other genre pieces arranged for acoustic steel have a great deal of charm. The electric songs range from beautiful ballads to exciting, dynamic late 30s swing. Tunings include: high and low-bass G, E, A and C#m.
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  • Title: Exploring C6th Lap Steel Guitar
  • Label: Volk Media
  • Year: 2015
  • Exploring C6th Lap Steel Guitar by Andy Volk is a comprehensive new 120-page book for 6-string non-pedal steel that covers musical tools and concepts such as chords, arpeggios, and scales plus steel guitar techniques like blocking, picking, slants, rolls and harmonics and ideas for expression and creativity in arranging and improvising. The aim of the book is to give players a reference for tools and concepts that can help them build the skills to play whatever music they prefer. Many of the concepts covered within can be applied to other tunings as well as to eight and ten-string guitars.
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  • Title: Slide Rules: Tunings for Lap Steel, Bottleneck, Resophonic and Indian Slide Guitar
  • Year: 2009
  • By: Andy Volk
  • Designed to fit in your guitar case, Slide Rules includes over 70 of the most popular and useful tunings for acoustic & electric lap steel guitar, bottleneck slide guitar, resophonic guitar, Weissenborn® and Hindustani slide guitar as used by the greatest players of the past and present. The book features tunings & string gauges for Rock, Blues, Country, Hawaiian, Western Swing, Folk, Celtic, Bluegrass, Jazz, Pop, Cajun, Ambient, Classical, Raga and every genre in between. Presented in an easy-to-read, graphic manner, the strings, notes, & musical intervals for each tuning are shown along with comments about the tuning; its uses, advantages and the players who’ve used it. A string gauge chart helps you set-up each tuning with the proper gauge strings.
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  • Title: Lap Steel Guitar
  • Year: 2003
  • By: Andy Volk
  • Lap Steel Guitar is the first-ever comprehensive book about lap-style and console steel guitar. Including interviews and profiles more than 35 of the greatest electric & acoustic steel guitarists to date, including Cindy.
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  • Title: A Perfectly Good Guitar
  • Year: 2017
  • By: Chuck Holley
  • Chuck Holley is a professional photographer and writer who loves music and listening to musicians talk about their trade. For several years, he has been photographing guitarists with their prized instruments and collecting their stories. A Perfectly Good Guitar is a beautifully illustrated book that presents these stories in revelatory photographs and words. Musicians including Cindy Cashdollar, Rosanne Cash, Guy Clark, JD Souther, Jorma Kaukonen, Bill Frisell, and Kelly Willis discuss that one special guitar which they count among their most prized instruments. For more information and to purchase, visit The University of Texas Press website.

Welcome to Homespun presented by Cindy Cashdollar!

Homespun presented by Cindy Cashdollar is an amazing, user-friendly, self-contained software environment where you can browse, purchase, instantly download, and enjoy high quality video titles. You get every bit of the quality of a DVD, and in some cases better!

Going digital has many benefits:

Instant delivery.

No waiting for deliveries. No shipping and handling charges. Never out of stock. No lost or damaged shipments. Order and start watching in just minutes!

 Instant Access.

Watch anything you’ve purchased in just 3 clicks, whether you are connected to the internet or not. No more hassles with players, remote controls or TV inputs.
Safe.

Unlike discs that can get damaged or lost, you’ll never lose your digital purchases, even if you buy a new computer or your hard drive crashes.

 Eco-friendly.

Manufacturing of discs contributes heavily to pollution, and 1.6 billion discs go into landfills every year. Enjoy the advantages of digital and save the planet while you’re at it!

Frequently Asked Questions:

How long does it take to download a product?

It depends on the speed of your internet connection, but with a fast broadband connection, you can start watching in just a few minutes while the rest of the product downloads in the background.

What quality are the downloads?

The video and audio quality are every bit as good as a DVD, and in some cases, you will get better quality on the download (with an HD product).

Will I get everything that comes with the DVD?

Yes, any additional materials, like PDFs, sheet music, tab, software or student materials are included.

Can I watch my purchases on my iPad or iPhone?

Absolutely! Homespun presented by Cindy Cashdollar is compatible with the “MOD Mobile” app in the Apple App Store. If you have a $99 Apple TV, you can also beam your video wirelessly to your TV via AirPlay! Please see the “Help Center” in the Homespun presented by Cindy Cashdollar software to find out more.

Can I enjoy my digital purchases even if I’m not connected to the internet?

Yes! Unlike streaming systems, you can take your laptop to a cabin in the woods, the beach or on an ocean voyage and watch anything you’ve purchased in full quality.

Can I access my digital purchases on a different computer than the one I purchased on? What if my hard drive crashes or I buy a new computer?

Unlike a disc, that might become scratched, warped, or lost, you will never lose access to a Homespun presented by Cindy Cashdollar purchase. Follow these steps to access your purchases:

  1. Download and install the free Homespun presented by Cindy Cashdollar Player app onto your second computer using one of the buttons below:
  2. Click the “options” button in the upper right hand corner and choose “Refresh owned products”
  3. Follow the prompts and enter in your email address and password
The products you have purchased will show up under “My Stuff” and you’ll be able to download and view them at your convenience. Your purchases are safe in your “digital locker in the cloud!”

Can I watch my digital purchases on my TV?

Absolutely. If you have a laptop (or a desktop computer near your TV), a DVI to HDMI cable is only about $15. Here is a wonderful guide on connecting your computer to your TV.

Or, if you have an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and an Apple TV, with a tap of your finger, you can beam videos wirelessly to your big screen via AirPlay.

Three ways to get fast customer support:

Have a question or problem? We are here to help!

1. Instant Help:

Just click the “Help Center” button in the upper right of the main screen, where you’ll be able to get instant answers to 90% of your questions. If you don’t see the answer you’re looking for, click the “contact support” button.

2. Help on the web:

Go to help.leapingbrain.com, which is monitored by people in multiple countries, and during U.S. business hours and evenings, you will usually get a reply within 15 – 30 minutes. Often, you’ll hear back from us nights, weekends and holidays!

3. Email:

You can also email techsupport@leapingbrain.com if that’s more convenient for you.

If you are contacting us outside normal business hours, we appreciate your patience, and pledge we will answer your question or resolve your problem as soon as possible! We are relentless when it comes to providing excellent customer support!